Silhouettes, 2017

Maryse Pique  

"I spent my childhood growing up on the Caribbean island of Martinique before moving to France and eventually the UK. This blend of cultural inspiration forms the thread that ties my work together. Beginning with a vibrant colour palette, I try to avoid being constrained by any preconceived ideas of what the painting should be, and instead allows the work to be an extension of my emotions and dreams at that time. It is this highly unusual use of bright colours coupled with thick paint and deep cut lines that has become her intoxicating signature style. I choose abstraction because it allows me to be completely free, abstraction is a vehicle of expression which allows my emotions to flow. I am guided by colours which will calm the soul. I consider myself as an engaged artist which express her disagreements with subtleties by driving the people into the light. Also, I gave myself as mission, through my paintings, to transform sadness, pains, angers in joy and light. Not only that, but I want that each of my paintings are a music to the ear, a breeze of hope and a sun for the viewer's. During a so chaotic period, the public needs comfort, frivolity in their daily life. 

My paintings are here to reminder them that there is always hope and light in the darkness. I want to believe that I transmute the darkness to light. My message is that we should always appreciate life. Joy, love and light are the best weapons to face obstacles in our life. At the end, each artist are unique in their own way." - Maryse Pique

Exhibitions:

Solo exhibition : Lily Gallery, Bristol, UK- 2009 to 2010

Group Exhibition : Le Grenier a Sel, Avignon, France- May 2014

Group Exhibition: Galerie Art et Miss, Paris , France - August 2014

Solo exhibition : Atrium, Martinique, France- October 2014 to November 2014

Group Exhibition : Chateau de Franc-Waret, Belgium - May 2015

Group Exhibition : BCM Gallery , Barcelona, Spain - July 2015

Group Exhibition : Marzia Frozen Gallery, Berlin, Germany- 10th December 2016 to 5th January 2017

Group Exhibition : Barcelona Internation Art Fair, Museum Maritime - 16th to 17th December 2016

London Art Biennale, Chelsea, from 29th March to 2nd April 2017

Finalist at the Global Awards 2017 in Dubai

Expo Metro Paris, 2017

Group Exhibition : Global Art Project 2018 at North Carolina, USA 1st July to 31st August 2018

Residency in Senegal from December 2018 to January 2019

Expo Metro London, December 2019

Gallery Renee Marie, USA, 2020- Gap Gender Woman (Collage)

Gallery du 808, Bristol, 2018 to July 2020

Galleries Pall Mall London from 7th December to 17th December 2020

Gallery Las Laguna Art - California - USA from 6th May -29th 2021

Exhibizone Biafarin , Canada, From 1st May to 31 May 2021

Global Art Project USA- Artheka 2021 - Roma, Italy - October 2021 (Collage)

Global Art Project USA - Milwakee Institut of Art USA- From 11th October to 21 of December 2021 (Collage)